I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.